12-01-2018

WEMW announces the new BALTIC AWARD and unveils the final line up of LAST STOP TRIESTE, FIRST CUT LAB and THIS IS IT

     

    Trieste, January 11th, 2018 – The eighth edition of When East Meets West kicks off in 10 days, on January 21st with an exciting double focus on the Nordic countries and South East Europe. After having revealed the pitching forum project selection, WEMW announces its new Baltic Award! Thanks to the cooperation with the three Baltic Film Institutes selected projects will compete for a cash prize of 3.000 EUR. Along with the co-production forum WEMW is proud to unveil the complete line-up of the three side sections targeting films in post-production stage.

    Now in its fourth edition, Last Stop Trieste, the work in progress section run together with the Trieste Film Festival, will present 7 creative documentaries to an exclusive panel of more than 40 international sales agents, festival programmers and TV commissioning editors. All films will be in the running for the HBO Europe Award and the Flow Digital Cinema Award.

    First Cut Lab, the workshop for films in editing phase, has finally selected 3 long feature fiction films from Poland, Russia and Lithuania with the main goal of fostering their artistic, sales and festival potential. To this aim, the producer/director teams invited to the lab will receive tailor-made advices from a consulting editor and international experts.

     

    After the successful past editions of these two side sections, When East Meets West and Trieste Film Festival will expand their initiatives targeting projects in post-production phase and will launch in partnership with Milano Film Network a new section exclusively dedicated to long feature fiction films produced or co-produced by Italian producers. This is IT will present 6 films ready for festival premiere/international distribution and will deliver the Laser Film Award.

    Alongside the pitching forum and the three side sections, WEMW will feature a rich programme including a “Coproduction Day” organized in cooperation with the Creative Europe Desks from South East European countries, Italy and the Nordic countries; “In the Spotlight”, where fund representatives from this year's spotlight territories will give a comprehensive insight into current trends in their film industries. The panel “The Road to Project and Film Marketing: Checkpoints and Pitfalls”, in cooperation with Heretic Asterisk, will shed light on the way marketing can impact a project during its all different stages: from development to delivery and distribution. EAVE will lead the session “Towards 2030: Creating New Business Models for Film”, a plenary for film professionals interested in the current status of digital distribution, its future growth and how to create a strong, sustainable and dynamic European industry. Finally, EDN – European Documentary Network will host the session “Victim of Changes? Or Drivers of Innovation?”, where a number of leading voices from public service broadcasters will discuss how they see the future for public media in the digital age.

    The 7 documentaries presented at Last Stop Trieste, the 3 long feature fiction films chosen for First Cut Lab and the 6 Italian films selected for This is IT are:

     

    LAST STOP TRIESTE

     

    100 TRIPS AROUND THE SUN

    director: Víctor Cruz
    producer: Fito Pochat
    countries: Argentina, Italy

    BALTIC NEW WAVE

    directors: Audrius Stonys, Kristine Briede
    producer: Uldis Cekulis
    countries: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia

    BEFORE FATHER GETS BACK

    director: Mari Gulbiani
    producer: Tekla Machavariani
    countries: Georgia, France, Germany

    EXEMPLARY BEHAVIOUR

    director: Audrius Mickevičius
    producer: Rasa Miškinytė,
    countries: Lithuania, Bulgaria, Italia

     

     

     

    HOME GAMES

    director: Alisa Kovalenko
    producer: Stephane Siohan
    countries: Ukraine, France, Poland

    MY UNKNOWN SOLDIER

    director: Anna Kryvenko
    producer: Michal Kráčmer
    countries: Czech Republic, Latvia, Slovakia

    PAYING A VISIT TO FORTUNA

    director: Mátyás Kálmán
    producer: Ágnes Horváth-Szabó
    country: Hungary

    FIRST CUT LAB

    CORE OF THE WORLD

    director: Audrius Mickevičius
    producers: Natalia Drozd, Sergey Selyanov
    countries: Russia, Lithuania

    SUMMER SURVIVORS

    director: Marija Kavtaradze
    producers: Marija Razgute, Klementina Remeikaite
    country: Lithuania

    THE MUTE

    director: Bartosz Konopka
    producer: Anna Wydra
    countries: Poland, Belgium

    This is IT

    CITTA’ GIARDINO

    director: Marco Piccarreda
    producers: Marco Piccarreda, Gaia Formenti
    country: Italy

    DUE PICCOLI ITALIANI

    director: Paolo Sassanelli
    producer: Tommaso Arrighi
    countries: Italy, Iceland

    MENOCCHIO

    director: Alberto Fasulo
    producer: Nadia Trevisan
    countries: Italy, Romania

     

     IL RUMORE DEL SOLE

    director: Mirko Locatelli
    producers: Mirko Locatelli, Giuditta Tarantelli
    countries: Italy, France

    STORIES FROM THE CHESTNUT WOODS

    director: Gregor Božič
    producers: Marina Gumzi, Igor Princic
    countries: Slovenia, Italy

    THE WORLD IS FLAT

    director: Matteo Carrega Bertolini
    producers: Matteo Carrega Bertolini,
    Paola Dall’Olio
    countries: Italy, France, Switzerland

    WEMW is organized by the FVG Audiovisual Fund and the Trieste Film Festival in collaboration with EAVE, Maia Workshops, Creative Europe Desk Italy, EURIMAGES and the support of Creative Europe/MEDIA Programme, MiBACT - Direzione Generale per il Cinema, CEI - Central European Initiative and the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. The 2018  East & West focus is in cooperation and with the support of all South East Europeans funds - Albanian National Center of Cinematography, Association of Filmmakers of BiH & Sarajevo Film Fund, Bulgarian National Film Center, Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Film Centre of Montenegro, Film Center Serbia, Greek Film Centre, Kosovo Cinematography Center, Macedonian Film Agency, Slovenian Film Centre - and all Nordic film institutes - Danish Film Institute, Finnish Film Foundation, Icelandic Film Centre, Norwegian Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute.

     

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